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TIL Daniel David Palmer, the father of chiropractic maintained the notion and basic principles of chiropractic treatment were passed along to him during a seance by a long dead doctor. Before learning of spinal adjustment from a supernatural entity, he was also a magnetic healer.

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wno7 TIL the only coup in US history occured in North Carolina in 1898. A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington and overthrew the local government, forcing both black and white officials to resign. The leader of the mob was later elected as mayor.
b9O7E TIL that a 'bad' Bean Boozle flavor is made by super-heating the actual disgusting item, putting it through a "gas chromotograph," isolating the chemical makeup, and converting it into "flavor markers" for the jelly bean.
78JaZ TIL the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919 to end the First World War included a convention establishing concert pitch as A = 435 Hz
awvdN TIL about a man named Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker, who has figured out a way for a single person to manipulate monoliths using only wooden levers, pebbles, and counterweights, and who may have solved the mystery of Stonehenge.
wLvvW TIL of the 1626 AD Explosion in Beijing, one of the largest and most lethal explosions ever, and the exact cause hasn't yet been determined. Body parts and animals rained down from the sky. Everything within 3-14 miles was utterly obliterated. The explosion was about equal to the Hiroshima bombing.